The crooked town's mayor, Hiram J. Slade ( Samuel S. Hinds ), who is in collusion with Kent, appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale ( Charles Winninger ), as the new sheriff, assuming that he'll be easy to control and manipulate.

Also, Hoover confessed that he could not run for a party whose only member in his boyhood home had been the town drunk.

* April 13 – Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora – Arizona border ; government troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel leader " Red " López is drunk.

The town drunk typically dwells in a small enough town that he is the only conspicuous alcoholic.

In fiction, the town drunk character serves a number of functions.

* The town drunk may serve merely as a moral example and object lesson on the evils of drunkenness.

A town drunk who appears in Our Town by Thornton Wilder is perhaps the most often seen example of this version of the character.

In modern fiction, which tends to reflect the contemporary influences of the sobriety movement, the town drunk may get sober and set about revitalizing his life.

* The town drunk may play the role of the fool as a source of comic relief.

" Otis " from The Andy Griffith Show is this type of town drunk, as shown in the character of Bobby Singer in the CW series Supernatural, and as are many of the denizens of Moe's Tavern from The Simpsons such as Barney Gumble.

* In a similar vein, the town drunk may serve as a semi-comic proxy for the Wise Old Man.

One prototype for this version of the town drunk is supplied by Shakespeare's Falstaff, who appears in both parts of Henry IV and in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Because the town drunk is notable only for drinking heavily, there are relatively few historical figures who inform the stereotype of the town drunk.

However, the rake is invariably much younger than the town drunk, and the designation casts attention on sexual excess and spending money more than on strong drink.

He is the town drunk and Homer Simpson's friend.

Recognizing the character for his appearance in The Simpsons Movie, Filmcritic called him " the most awesomely funny town drunk in pop culture ".

Later that night, after a drunk and naked Michael runs through the streets of town, Nick chases him down and begs Michael not to leave him " over there " if anything happens.

* Ossie Davis as Da Mayor, an older black man who some call the town drunk

The title alludes to Paul Revere's Ride, as does the subplot in which the town drunk ( Ben Blue ) rides his horse to warn people of the ' invasion '.

as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

Assessors in Rhode Island are charged not only with placing a valuation upon real and personal property, but they also have the responsibility to raise by a tax `` a sum not less than nor more than '' a specified amount as ordered by a city council or financial town meeting.

Johnnie was a trucker with a small lumber outfit in a town about twenty miles away, and he was also pretty good at anything in the carpentry line.

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

* Altenberg is also a lost town and archaeological site in the Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia

The theme is also present in the many other nameless citizens who are separated from loved ones in other towns or from those who happened to be out of town when the gates of Oran were closed.

Since the administrative reforms in Bavaria in the 1970s, the town also encompasses the following Ortsteile:

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

Aachen (, also known as Bad Aachen ) is a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

There was on the promontory a small town, or rather village, also called Actium.

Development in Canberra has been closely regulated by government, both through the town planning process, but also through the use of crown lease terms that have tightly limited the use of parcels of land.

* Arene, Elis, an ancient town in Elis, Greece, also known as Makistos, Samia or Samiko

The town also produces Abadeh rugs.

The polygonal walls of the acropolis may still be seen in a fair state of preservation on a circular hill standing about above the little plain of Exarcho ; one gateway remains, and there are also traces of town walls below.

Aeclanum ( also spelled Aeculanum ) was an ancient town of Samnium, southern Italy, c. 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia ( near the modern Mirabella Eclano ).

* The town is also home to Ajaccio Cathedral.

Various markets are held in the Market Hall, for example: Tuesdays – retail market, which also stretches into the town hall car park and temporarily the Cattle Market, while Brewery Yard car park is regenerated ; Wednesday – flea market ; 4th Thursday of the month a farmers ' market ; Friday – retail market ; Saturday – retail market ( also in the town hall car park ); 3rd Sunday of the month – antique fair ; 2nd Saturday – craft fair.

* Matthew Jay, the late singer-songwriter, also spent much of his life in the town.

The town centre is a principal engine of economic revival not only for all communities across the Borough, but also for Pennine Lancashire.

It is also reputed to be the only UK town with a railway station and a pub in the middle of a roundabout.

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has also been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury.

He is also remembered with a large statue in the market town of Ormskirk where he graces the centre of famous student town.